Trainwreck‘s last installment was about the ‘best’ reality TV show that never end up airing, a tragedy, really. And this week, Woodstock 99 producer Jack McInness is sitting at the director’s chair, going to little Rachel, Nevada. There, viewers can find little a restaurant call the Little A’Le’Inn and one of its co-owners Connie West. She wonders why she’s getting a barrage of reservations during September 2019, eventually finding out about a preposterously dangerous event. A young vape store attendant, Matty Robers, jokingly created an event to storm Area 51 which is near Rachel. West eventually meets Roberts, reluctantly teams up with him, which means that Rachel’s sheriff must accommodate millions of congregating attendees. The attendees also must deal with the American military who shoots intruders of Area 51 and won’t make exceptions.

This series of documentaries have a surface level through line of concerts going wrong or human gatherings going wrong. A deeper through line may be about this series capturing greedy people, or evil men getting various consequences. I mean if we have to find a villain here, it has to be the American militarized government. They don’t feel like villains here though, although viewers can suspect why military commanders seem like pencil pushers here. Or maybe the villain here are the people who were following this story to see soldiers shoot some nerds. This installment doesn’t seem to focus on who’s the bad guy, instead mostly pointing their camera to Rachel. Or, specifically, Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 looks at the inhabitants of the small town anticipating a deluge of nerds facing their deaths.

One of Storm Area 51‘s main interviewees, West, is particularly interesting because she initially represents Rachel’s interests. This documentary doesn’t really go into why she teamed up with Roberts but doing so makes her an interloper. Although just like many of the Trainwreck documentaries, it gives multiple perspectives towards to youth culture. This installment looks at that culture from the inside, one that doesn’t take itself seriously and laughs at people who are sincere. But then it also looks at those people who takes things too seriously, like FBI agents who investigate Roberts. It’s valid that some of the two million people who responded to Roberts’ event are assets of foreign governments. Maybe some of those people wanted bloodshed to show that America isn’t benevolent towards the citizens they’re protecting.

Or, as Storm Area 51 shows, that people, despite belonging to different generations, will have similar patterns concerning their behaviour. Specifically, that 10% of people who say they’re attending an event actually show up. A figure that feels like a high estimate even for Alienstock. Alienstock, by the way, is the name of Roberts and West’s event, and Roberts eventually pulls out of that event for an EDM party in Vegas. The documentary also adds some context and connects Alienstock to Woodstock and Fyre Fest but with the thread of government murder. And out of the millions of people who said they’d storm Area 51, only thousands of people showed up at events in three separate locations. Even so, it was fun watching people in a town recount their anxiety in facing young people.